List of justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court

This is a list of justices serving in the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Territorial judges

Name	Term of Service	Term of Service as Chief
Charles Dunn	1836–1848	1836–1848
William C. Frazer	1836–1838
David Irvin	1836–1848
Andrew G. Miller	1838–1848

Circuit Justices serving as Supreme Court Justices

Name	Term of Service	Term of Service as Chief
Alexander W. Stow	1848–1851	1848–1851
Levi Hubbell	1848–1853	1851
Edward V. Whiton	1848–1853	1852–1853
Charles H. Larrabee	1848–1853
Mortimer M. Jackson	1848–1853
Wiram Knowlton	1850–1853
Timothy O. Howe	1851–1853

Justices since 1853

Name	Term of Service	Term of Service as Chief
Edward V. Whiton	1853–1859	1853–1859
Samuel Crawford	1853–1855
Abram D. Smith	1853–1859
Orsamus Cole	1855–1892	1880–1892
Luther S. Dixon	1859–1874	1859–1874
Byron Paine	1859–1864
Jason Downer	1864–1867
Byron Paine	1867–1871
William P. Lyon	1871–1894	1892–1894
Edward George Ryan	1874–1880	1874–1880
David Taylor	1878–1891
Harlow S. Orton	1878–1895	1894–1895
John B. Cassoday	1880–1907	1895–1907
John B. Winslow	1891–1920	1907–1920
Silas U. Pinney	1892–1898
Alfred W. Newman	1894–1898
Roujet D. Marshall	1895–1918
Charles V. Bardeen	1898–1903
Joshua Eric Dodge	1898–1910
Robert G. Siebecker	1903–1922	1920–1922
James C. Kerwin	1905–1921
William H. Timlin	1907–1916
Robert McKee Bashford	1908–1908
John Barnes	1908–1916
Aad J. Vinje	1910–1929	1922–1929
Marvin B. Rosenberry	1916–1950	1929–1950
Franz C. Eschweiler	1916–1929
Walter C. Owen	1918–1934
Burr W. Jones	1920–1926
Christian Doerfler	1921–1929
Charles H. Crownhart	1922–1930
E. Ray Stevens	1926–1930
Chester A. Fowler	1929–1948
Oscar M. Fritz	1929–1954	1950–1954
Edward T. Fairchild	1929–1957	1954–1957
John D. Wickhem	1930–1949
George B. Nelson	1930–1942
Theodore G. Lewis	1934–1934
Joseph Martin	1934–1946
Elmer E. Barlow	1942–1948
James Ward Rector	1946–1947
Henry P. Hughes	1948–1951
John E. Martin	1948–1962	1957–1962
Grover L. Broadfoot	1948–1962	1962
Timothy Brown	1949–1964	1962–1964
Edward J. Gehl	1950–1956
George R. Currie	1951–1968	1964–1968
Roland J. Steinle	1954–1958
Emmert L. Wingert	1956–1959
Thomas E. Fairchild	1957–1966
E. Harold Hallows	1958–1974	1968–1974
William H. Dieterich	1959–1964
Myron L. Gordon	1962–1967
Horace W. Wilkie	1962–1976	1974–1976
Bruce F. Beilfuss	1964–1983	1976–1983
Nathan S. Heffernan	1964–1995	1983–1995
Leo B. Hanley	1966–1978
Connor Hansen	1967–1980
Robert W. Hansen	1968–1978
Roland B. Day	1974–1996	1995–1996
Shirley S. Abrahamson	1976–2019	1996–2015
William G. Callow	1977–1992
John L. Coffey	1978–1982
Donald W. Steinmetz	1980–1999
Louis J. Ceci	1982–1993
William A. Bablitch	1983–2003
Jon P. Wilcox	1992–2007
Janine P. Geske	1993–1998
Ann Walsh Bradley	1995–present
N. Patrick Crooks	1996–2015
David T. Prosser Jr.	1998–2016
Diane S. Sykes	1999–2004
Patience D. Roggensack	2003–present	2015–present
Louis B. Butler Jr.	2004–2008
Annette K. Ziegler	2007–present
Michael J. Gableman	2008–2018
Rebecca Bradley	2015–present
Daniel Kelly	2016–2020
Rebecca Frank Dallet	2018–present
Brian Hagedorn	2019–present
Jill Karofsky	2020–present

Sources

• Trina E. Gray, Karen Leone de Nie, Jennifer Miller, and Amanda K. Todd, Portraits of Justice: The Wisconsin Supreme Court's First 150 Years, Second Edition (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2003).